----- Original Message ----- From: "Alberto Monteiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 12:39 PM Subject: Re: Robert Kagan on Europe and the US
> > Dan Minette wrote: > > > >> Why did you use the future tense? What you predicted is exactly > >> what happened in Serbia: namely the de-europeization of Kosovo. > > > >Well, that's a different story. Kosovo came under Musilim rule when the > >Ottoman empire conquered it in 1455. The Ottoman empire only lost control > >after WWI. > > > It's *not* a different story, because Kosovo was majoritarily Christian > in the early XX century or so. Then, immigrants from Albania came, > first as a minority, then as an aggressive and increasing minority, > then as a majority. The sources I read suggested that immigration from Albania has been going on for 400+ years. What was the fraction in the early 20th century? > > My bet is that the next country to be Kosovoed is Germany - a > fine irony for their n--- past. If you extrapolate the fraction of German population that is Turkish over the last 30 years, how long will it take for Turks to become 10% of the population? At 2.3% of the population, they don't seem to be there in large numbers. Dan M. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
